written in the last year of his long life. It was completed on 6 June 1925 and showed him to be still in full command of his mental powers. He died three weeks later, but before he died he knew that it had definitely been decided to complete the north to south railway line; his other dream of a (sea-)port at the mouth of the Murray still awaits fulfilment. Family Newland died on 27 June 1925 at North Adelaide, survived by his wife and three of their five sons. His ashes were taken to his spiritual home, Victor Harbor, for burial. Colonel Sir Henry Simpson Newland DSO, CBE (1873–1969), their eldest son, was an accomplished surgeon known for his public works and as a founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Philip Mesmer Newland (1875–1916) was an Australian sportsman who excelled at Australian rules football, cricket and lacrosse. He played Sheffield Shield cricket for South Australia as a wicket-keeper and toured England with the Australian Test team in 1905. He played Australian rules football with the Norwood Football Club and captained Norwood's 1904 premiership winning team. Major Victor Marra Newland MC, OBE (1876–1953), their third son, had a distinguished military career, was a successful business man, a member of the stock exchange, and in the period 1933–38 represented North Adelaide for the Liberal and Country League in the House of Assembly. Doctor Clive Newland (1878–1919), a graduate of London University, had a practice at Morphett Vale. He was killed in a railway accident, when the motorcycle he was riding collided with an oncoming train. Ralph Dimmock Newland (1880–1933), their youngest son, represented South Australia at lacrosse. Bibliography Novels Paving the Way: A Romance of the Australian Bush (1893) Blood Tracks of the Bush: An Australian Romance (1900) Autobiography The Far North Country (1887) Old Time Memories: a band of pioneers (1895) Memoirs of Simpson Newland, C.M.G. Sometime Treasurer of South Australia (1926) See also Electoral district of Newland References 1835 births 1925 deaths 19th-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists Australian non-fiction writers Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George People from Hanley, Staffordshire Politicians from Adelaide Writers from Adelaide Treasurers of South Australia Members of the South Australian House of Assembly 19th-century male writers Male non-fiction writers